Nut warmer and preserver



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F. A, BOWDOIN] Nut Warmer and Preserver.

No. 235,990., Patented 0ec.2s,1ss0

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UNITED; STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. BOWDOIN, OF LEWISTON, MAINE.

NUT WARMER AND PRESERVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,990, dated December 28, 1880.

Application filed October 28, 1880.

To all whom it wry concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. BOWDOIN, of Lewiston, of the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Nut Warmers and Proservers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig.2 an end view, Fig. 3 a rear elevation, Fig. 4 a transverse section, and Fig. 5 a. longitudinal section, of a peanut-warmer of my improved kind, which 1s for the purpose of maintaining at a moderate or uniform temperature and free from moisture, or crisp and palatable, peanuts, pop-corn,or other edibles of like nature. Besides its chambers for containing the nuts and devices for heating them, it has an auxiliary or show chamber having a transparent or glass front, such show'chamber answering to hold peanuts for a sign and to aid in heating the main chamber. It also has opening out of its heat-chamber, that is immediately under the warming chamber, other auxiliary chambers or spaces arranged against the ends and back of the warming-chamber, all being hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A represents the outer case or shell of the apparatus, it being made of wood or other proper material, and having in its lower partachamber, B, to hold a lamp. Between the said chamber B and a chamber, E, in the upper part of the case is a heat-receiving space, 0, which at bottom opens at the central part thereof into the lamp-chamber. Across the heating-chamber is an air-chamber or flue, D, formed as shown, and opening at its opposite ends through the sides of the case.

Leading out of the heat-receiving space 0 at its upper part are narrow spaces or fluechambers F F G, those marked F being against the ends of the chamber E, while that marked G is against its back. These flue-spaces F F G are formed of plate-metal to keep the heat from injuring the portions of the case next the said spaces when such case is made of wood.

.In front of the chamber E, which is the receptacle for holding the peanuts to be warmed and preserved warm, is the auxiliary or show (N0 model.)

chamber H, which is anarrow, long, and deep chamber, having a front, a, of glass. This show-chamber is to be filled with the peanuts, to be seen through its glass front or pane a, they being to remain not only as a sign to in dicate to persons or passers-by the character of the apparatus, but to give to it the appearance of having its warming-chamber filled with the nuts. A passage, b, leads from the lower part of the show-chamber into the heatre'ceiving space C. There is also a passage, 0, leading out of the show-chamber at its top. This show-chamber also answers as a means of heating the contents of the chamber E, which at its rear is open, and has a door or cover, I, to the opening. There is also in the rear part of the lamp-chamber an opening,f, provided with a door, K.

Holes g are made in the lower part of the ends of the lamp-chamber and in the upper part of it at its rear, and there are also one or more holes, 13, in the upper part of'each of the chambers F F G, such being for ventilating their respective chambers.

The front side, 70, of the lamp-chamber may be of glass, and be painted or have made on it any words, letters, or devices that may be chosen to attract the notice of persons, such being seen to advantage in the evening, when the glass is illuminated by the lamp.

The peanut-chamber I form of metallic plate. An apparatus so made has several advantageous features beyond that described by me in Letters Patent No. l,l90--that is, it not only has the heating fines or chambersFFG, but the show-chamber H, all of which are not found in the said patented apparatus.

What I claim as my invention is as follows,

VIZ 1 The combination of the auxiliary or show chamber H, having a glass or transparent front, as set forth, with the heating-chamber or peanut-receptacle E, the heating flues or spaces F F Gr, and the lamp-holding and hotair chambers B and (3, all being arranged in the case A and provided with inducts and eduots, substantially as explained and represented.

FRANK A. BOWDOIN.

Witnesses:

AARON Bownonv, ALBERT R. SAVAGE. 

